Eylem Buruk

Eylem Buruk (14 June 1874-15 October 1920) was the Mayor of Kayseri under the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian Genocide.

Biography
Eylem Buruk was born on 14 June 1874 in Kayseri, Turkey, Ottoman Empire to a family of Sunni Muslim Turks. Buruk was made the mayor of Kayseri under the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) party, and he complied with the Armenian Genocide, rounding up and exterminating local Armenians. As a result, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) set out to kill him in Operation Nemesis to avenge his massacre of innocent Armenians. Buruk moved to Paris after World War I's end and lived in the Arab Quarter, and he spent most of his time going to a coffee shop and reading the newspaper. Hrayr Kezerian and his assassination team rushed into the shop one day and shot Buruk dead with handguns before fleeing, and he was the team's second victim.